完形填空

　　When Nancy Lublin got $ 5000 from her great grandfather, she never once considered taking a vacation or paying off student loans（借款）. ____1____ the 24-year-old New York University law student began thinking about the clothing ____2____ faced by most of today's low-income women: “If she goes for a job interview ____3_____ dressed, she won't get the job,”Lublin says.“But without a job, she can't ____4____ proper clothing.”

　　A few weeks later, Lublin ____5___ Dress for Success and began searching for clothing and volunteers（志愿者）. She asked women to give away ____6____ business clothes that were ____7____ in good condition. She asked the members of diet centers to give away clothes that no longer fit. At first Lublin ____8____ the clothes in her one-bed-room apartment, but finally she found ___9___ in Greenwich Village church basement, which now ___10___ as the organization's main office.

　　Today, when women arrive at the office for help with job-hunting, they ____11___ a dress, shoes, a bag, stockings and jewelry, and self-confidence as well. Some are trying to enter the work __12___ after being on welfare（福利）for years.

　　__13____Dress for Success fitted its first per son who got help a year ago, more than 1 000 women have received dresses and many have won ___14___. Yarit Polanco was recently __15___ as a law-firm office manager. “Thanks to Dress for Success, I made a good impression（印象）and was accepted.”she says.

　　Donations（捐赠）are now __16___ in, including jewelry and 6 000 pairs of trousers and $ 40 000 worth of handbags. Broadcast journalists have given suits. And Lublin is opening Dress for Success ____17____ in other cities. “Many women have clothes ____18___ around that they'll never wear again,” says a volunteer.“Nancy's ___19___ is simple and practical and the ___20___ has proved so important to those women who are in great need of it.”

完形填空

　　It's no secret that many children would be healthier and happier with adoptive parents（养父母）than with the parents that nature dealt them. That's especially __1__ of children who remain in homes where they're badly treated __2__ the law blindly favors biological parents. It's also true of children who __3__ ,for years in foster（寄养）homes because of parents who can't or won't care for them but ___4__ to give up custody（监护）rights.

　　Fourteen-year-old Kimberly Mays __5__ neither descriptions but her recent court victory could __6__ children who do. Kimberly has been the object of an angry custody battle between the man who __7__ her and her biological parents, with whom she has never __8__. A Florida judge decided that the teenager can ___9__ with the only father she's ever known and that her biological parents have“on legal right”on her.

　　Shortly after ___10__ in December 1978, Kimberly Mays and another baby were mistakenly switched and sent home with the __11__ parents. Kimberly's biological parents received a child who died of a heart disease in 1988. Medical tests __12__ that the child wasn't their own daughter, but Kim was, thus leading to a custody __13__ with Robert Mays. In 1989 ,the two families __14__ that Mr Mays would continue to have custody with the biological parents getting __15__ rights. Those rights were ended when Mr Mays decided that Kimberly was being __16___.

　　The decision to __17__ Kimberly with Mr Mays caused heated discussion. But the judge made __18__ that Kimberly did have the right to sue（起诉）on her won behalf. Thus he made clear that she was more than just a __19__ possession of her parents. Biological parentage does not mean on absolute ownership that cancels（取消）all the __20__ of children.

完形填空

　　The western world has always been divided into two types of people——the cool and the uncool. It is a division that __1__ in school. The cool kids are good at __2__. They are __3__ with the opposite sex. They are good-looking and people want to __4__ their style. They can do their homework but they don't make a big effort. That would __5__ be cool.

　　The uncool kids are in the other corner of the playground. They are very bright, but they don't have great. __6__ skills and they are __7__ at sports. When they are not programming computers or doing calculus（微积分）in their heads, they are reading comic books and watching shows like the“X Files”. They are __8__ as the geeks.

　　Here's the news. The geeks are __9__. Make friends with them now or they will put virus in your computer and __10__ your maths homework to ruin. Geeks might not be popular at school, yet they do pass their examinations, and they might not be too popular at university, but __11__ good degrees.

　　The most important __12__ of the 21st century, computers and IT, has been at least partly created by geeks. Geek heroes like Bill Gates __13__ others to follow their example. Being a geek is a way of earning good money. And the creation of the Internet gave them a __14__ of their own to work and play in, making them a global __15__. Besides, the effect of the geeks __16__ popular culture has started a new trend（趋势）. It is now cool to be __17__. Geek culture is becoming an important part of general popular culture, in which what you know is more important than __18__ you look like.

　　But there are also __19__. Geeks were often bullied or laughed at in school. Now a geek may be your boss. Perhaps it is time for __20__.

完形填空

　　One day Tom bought, for two dollars, a large number of used books. He put them in a ___1____ and pulled them to the ___2___ He had to ___3____ at work until three in the morning.

　　At three, he ___4____ to walk home. The streets were dark. Tom could ___5____ wait to arrive home to begin reading his new hooks.

　　“___6___”a voice shouted. But Tom was too ___7___ to hear the shout. A moment later, a gunshot went ___8____ his ear. He heard the shot. Tom turned to see what was ___9____. An angry policeman ran toward him. The policeman didn't think that the bag ____10___ Tom. He shouted at Tom,“Drop it!”Tom did so.

　　“Open it!”the policeman ____11_____.

　　Tom opened it and the old books ___12_____ out of it.

　　“Why didn't you stop ____13____ when I shouted?” the policeman asked,“If I could shoot ___14____, you would be dead.”“I didn't ____15____ you.”Tom said,“I am almost deaf.”

　　The policeman told Tom he was___16____for having shot at him.“___17____would be better for you not to walk on the ___18___ at night”he said.

　　Tom smiled, and told the policeman that his job____19____ a clerk in the telegraph office was a night job. The policeman could think of____20____ to answer this.

完型填空

　　It must have been after two o'clock in the morning when the last guests took their ___1___, and although we had enjoyed their arrival, my wife and I were quite___2___to shut the door behind them. We left all the dirty dishes and glasses___3___they were, and, after opening a few windows to let some fresh air in and the___4___of stale（陈旧的）tobacco out, we climbed into bed and fell___5___.

　　I couldn't have been asleep for more than half an hour___6___I woke up with a___7___smell of smoke in my nose. Still half asleep, I walked into the hall, and there, ___8___dense clouds of smoke, I saw that one of the curtains was ___9___ I should have closed the windows then ___10___ delay, but ___11___ I tried to beat out the flames（火焰）with a newspaper. When this failed I___12___into the kitchen to grab a bucket and filled it ___13___ water. At the ___14___ time I shouted to Barbara, who hurriedly dialed 119 to ask the fire brigade（消防员）___15___ coming to my help. We had to work at ___16___ speed carrying buckets of water from the kitchen to prevent the flames fanned by the wind from the windows ___17___ spreading. We were unable to ___18___ the fire but we ___19___ to keep it partly in check until the arrival of the firemen. Fortunately, they arrived quickly and they had little difficulty ___20___ putting out the flames. For most of the rest of the day we worked hard.

完型填空

　　Ellen Parker was worried about her health. She couldn't walk very quickly and it was difficult for her to climb stairs, she was soon out of____1____.

　　“I____2____I had better go to the doctor,”she thought.

　　She went to the doctor and told him her____3____.

　　“I'm not at all____4____,”he said.“It is clear what your problem is.”

　　He examined her and then gave her some____5____. “If you don't do what I say, Mrs. Parker,”he said,“____6____you will have a heart attack. It could ____7____you.”

　　Ellen was very worried as she left the doctor's.

　　She knew that she had to take his advice but that it would not be____8____and that it would____9____time.

　　The____10____day she went shopping. The first shop she went into was a____11____shop.

　　“I'd like ten pounds of steak, please,”she said.

　　“____12____, madam,”the butcher replied and went into the cold storage room and____13____a large piece of steak.

　　He brought the huge piece of meat____14____into the shop and placed it on the scale（秤）.

　　“That's____15____under ten pounds,”he said.

　　The butcher worked out the____16____.

　　“____17____$ 4.99 a pound that will be $ 45.5, please.____18____I cut it up into small piece for you?”

　　“Oh, I don't want to buy the meat,” Mrs. Parker said.

　　“if you don't want to buy it,”the butcher____19____,“why did you ask me to get it for you?”

　　“I just want to see____20____ 10 pounds of meat looked like.”

完形填空

　　In the water around New York city is a very small island ___1___ Liberty Island. On Liberty Island there is a very special ___2___ called the Statue of Liberty. It is one of the ___3___ famous sights in the world.

　　___4___ Statue of Liberty was a gift ___5___ the people of France to the people of the Passageed States. The Statue was made ___6___ a French sculptor named Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. The inner support ___7___ was designed by Gustave Eiffel, the same man ___8___ made the famous Eiffel Tower in ___9___.

　　Liberty, of course, ___10___ freedom, and the Statue of Liberty was given to the Passageed States to ___11___ the one __12___ anniversary of US independence from ___13___. The statue was built in France, taken ___14___ piece by piece and then ___15___ in the Passageed States. It was opened for ___16__ public on October 28, 1886.

　　___17___ you might expect, the statue is very big. Visitors can ride an elevator from the ground to the ___18___ of the statue. If they want to, they can then __19__ up the 168 steps to reach the head of the Statue ___20___ they can look out and enjoy the beautiful sight of the city of New York.

完形填空

　　When I was twelve years old, my family were the first black people to move into an all-white part of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Many of our new 1 weren't very welcoming. Some of the adults said 2 that we should return where we came 3 . The children sometimes threw stones at me or drove me home from 4 .

　　Most of my teachers 5 took no notice of me, but not Dorothy Bean, my history teacher. Miss Bean was angry at how badly I was being 6 , but she didn't say this to me. Miss Bean 7 her respect for me by teaching me just like 8 else. Instead of being unnoticed, I was given a 9 to show that I was smart. Miss Bean was the first teacher who ever made me 10 myself. She insisted on knowing what I thought about difficult questions. Was Thomas Jefferson 11 to buy Louisiana from France? 12 ? She expected me to have an opinion and to be able to 13 . it up. Miss Bean was teaching me that thinking for myself was the real key to 14 .

　　One day, when I was not paying attention in class, Miss Bean suddenly 15 an eraser at me. Unbelievably, the eraser hit me right on the hand and 16 my pencil flying. The whole class was 17 at first, then started laughing. This incident became famous in the school and, 18 it happened to me, the students wanted to get to 19 me. So that's the story of how Dorothy Bean made me her target, and how I became just another 20 in school.

完形填空

　　On my first day of teaching, all my classes are going well. 1 a teacher was going to be something easy and sure, I decided. Then came Period 7, the last class of the day.

　　As I walked 2 the room, I heard furniture crash. Rounding the corner, I saw one boy pinning 3 to the floor. “Listen, you retard!” yelled the one on the bottom. “I don't 4 a damn about your sister!”

　　“You keep your hands 5 her, you hear me?” The boy on 6 threatened.

　　I drew 7 my short frame and asked them to stop 8 . Suddenly 14 pairs of eyes were fixed on my face. I knew I did not 9 convincing. Glaring at each other and me, the two boys slowly 10 their seats. At that moment, the teacher from 11 the hall stuck his head in the door and shouted at my students to sit down, shut up and do 12 I said. I was left 13 powerless.

　　I tried to teach the lessons I had prepared, but was 14 a sea of guarded faces. As the class was leaving, I kept back the boy who had instigated（挑起）the fight, I'll call him Mark. “Lady, don't 15 your time,” he told me, “we're the retards.” Then Mark wandered 16 the room.

　　Dumbstruck, I 17 into my chair and wondered 18 I should have become a teacher. Was the only 19 for problems like this to get out? I told myself I'd suffer for one year, and after my marriage the next summer I'd do something 20 rewarding.

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项．

　　About 150 years ago, a musician sat quietly at a corner in Vienna while his new symphony was played for the first time. At the end, he __1__ the audience to know that they were clapping wildly. He was totally deaf. The musician was Beethoven, one of the greatest __2__ who ever lived.

　　Beethoven wrote about 300 pieces of music. He wrote some of his most beautiful pieces __3__ he became deaf. It is hard for anyone to be deaf. But probably it is __4__ for a composer than anyone else. Think of not being able to __5__ the music you have written. Even as a child, Beethoven did not have a __6__ life. His father, who was a singer in Born, Germany, drank a great deal, and was __7__. When the boy was only four, his father decided to __8__ a musician of him. Hour after hour Beethoven had to __9__ on the violin and clavier. Whenever he did not work hard, his father was __10__.

　　 It is a __11__ that the boy did not __12__ music. He learned so fast that he was able to make a __13__ when he was only 11. When he was 17, the great musician Mozart praised him. A few years later, Beethoven went to Vienna to __14__ with Haydn. Soon he was writing a great deal of music__15__.

　　Beethoven had an ugly face and a __16__ temper. But he also had a great deal of __17__. The wealthy people of Vienna ___18____ him time after time to their homes. They forgave him when his temper flared up. Illness made him deaf when he was only 31. During the ___19___ of his life, he was often ill. He was often worried about money, too.

  Beethoven wrote long compositions and short ones, gay ones and sad ones, gentle ones and __20___ ones. his nine symphonies are all his masterpieces.